Homelessness is a hard, multifaceted problem – one of the most difficult and expensive facing Anchorage today. As a major population center and one of the only places in the state where there is significant infrastructure to address homelessness and its host of attendant issues (among them health care, food insecurity, mental health needs and drug and alcohol abuse), those on society’s margins gravitate here from around the Southcentral region and the state – and often don’t have the resources to regain stable footing.